House Business Affairs & Labor

Miss haroja, please call the roll. Representative brooks. Present. English. Here. Hooray. Here. Gonzalez. Here. Kelsey. Here. Leader is. Excused. Marshall. Here. Morrow. Excused. Richardson. Here. Ryden. Excused. Zukla. Here. Camacho. Excuse. And madam chair present. Our bill. Sponsors are before us. Representative Ferre and Representative Stewart. Who wants to start? Representative Stewart. And welcome to business affairs and labor. Thank you, madam chair and members of the committee. We know neither of us have presented a bill in front of this committee. So be nice, be nice, please and thank you. This bill is incredibly simple. Last year a member of the American association of marriage and family therapists and an educator in this field came to me and had a really interesting idea which was to create a more flexible pathway to licensure for folks who are looking to become candidates for the marriage and family therapy license here in Colorado. So that's what we did. This bill is incredibly simple. If you have read it, which I hope you have, you will know that it is only a page and a half long. All this bill does very, very simply is allow an individual who has a…